Barack Obama is prtraying himself as THE agent of change because things don't work well in Washington anymore, as if they ever did. I remember how bipartisan the feeling was in 1982 when Reagan got Dick Gephardt and Bill Bradley and many Democrats to go along with Reagan's changes to the tax structure. That bi-partisan achievement has brought us a $10 trillion dollar debt and a United States that will become wholely owned subsidiaries of Saudi Arabia and China.
But here is my challenge to Obama supporters. In that famous interview in Nevada, at: http://news.rgj.com/... , Obama said in answer to raising taxes,
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paraphrasing- Obama said he will just wait for the Bush Tax Cuts to expire after 2010. That means for the first 3 1/3 years of his administration, or not until April 15, 2012, no additional tax dollars will come in to either reduce the deficit, fund his "bridge to the middle class", fund the energy and global warming initiatives he stole form John Edwards, or help to fund universal or any other kind of health care changes. Not only that, it's worse because in 2010, there is NO ESTATE TAX. It will be gone gone gone for a year and so will be the money that it generates and you can bet Republicans will be DNRing to death anybody who has left them money, so that will affect the following years too.
*Update 1[2008-1-20 13:59:20 by cpa1]:* It seems as that video was taken off the Reno Gazette Website but it may come back again. I have a call into 2 online administrators at the Reno Gazette. In the meantine, here is another report, this one for the LA Times: at http://www.latimes.com/...
For those of you so quick to call me a liar, it is your candidate that is the liar and your distgusting techniques of discrediting anything not Obama will blow up in your faces.
We have another update!
[UPDATE 2]
http://www.kpvi.com/...
TAXES:
Referring to Obama
-- Would let some of Bush's tax cuts expire in 2010 as
scheduled, in effect raising taxes on wealthier people to help pay
for programs.
Clinton and Obama have said they would let tax cuts lapse for families earning more than $250,000. Edwards goes further, saying he would repeal the tax cuts — not just wait for them to expire — for households earning more than $200,000.
So, Obama supporters, just deal with this issue. How will Obama change anything if he sits back on his butt and waits for affects of the Bush tax cuts expiration to begin on April 15, 2012?
I can imagine many of you Obama supporters will not want to answer this because it makes your candidate look like a charlatan who has sold you all a "bill of goods." However, how can you expect all the people who aren't believing of the Obama star trail to give him money, work for him, convince others of his qualities or even vote for him in a general election if every single thing he has said or tries to portray about himself is trashed by what this phony agent of change said about taxes.
Perhaps if you cannot answer this you are sealing the deal for many of us not to vote for Obama in the general. He never even said he would try to change the tax structure earlier, can you believe that? He is perfectly willing to wait to April 15, 2012.
I don't think his hero, Ronald Reagan, would wait. You all talk about this guy as something different. Defend him without your fantasy platitudes. Tell us what he will do about this tax situation which affects EVERYTHING.
I say, put up or shut up!